United States One Dollar Bill, page 1

Originally posted by Souljah
Did you know about the Number Thirteen showing up all overthe One Dollar Bill?

A reference perhaps to the 13 original colonies? Had there been 11 original colonies...the number would likely have been 11 and not 13.

They say that the number 13 is an unlucky number. This is almost a worldwide belief.

You will usually never see a room numbered 13, or any hotels or motels with a 13th floor.

True...because of silly superstitions.

But, think about this: 13 original colonies,

Yep. But I believe that was happenstance. Again it could have as easily been 11 or 10 or 16. I don't think anyone said, "OK, let's only have 13 original colonies so we can center everything around 13."

13 signers of the Declaration of Independence,

Uhm...better go back to American History class....there were 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence. Besides, the signers of the Declaration of Independence aren't ON the dollar bill...which is the topic of this thread.

www.ushistory.org...

13 stripes on our flag,

That's not on the dollar bill either which is what I *thought* this thread was about, but it IS a reference to the original 13 colonies.

13 steps on the Pyramid,

Another reference to the 13 original colonies? Likely.

13 letters in the Latin above,

There are *technically* twelve. The "oe" ligature is basically like a compound word...two becomes one. At any rate, I seriously doubt anyone said "OK, let's make sure we find a motto that has 13 letters."

13 letters in "E Pluribus Unum"

Again, I doubt that's significant. Happenstance.

13 stars above the Eagle,

Another reference to the original colonies. Had there been 26 original colonies...I'm inclined to believe there'd be 26 stars above the eagle's head.

13 plumes of feathers on each span of the Eagle's wing,

I counted 17 on the bottom row and couldn't SEE the ones on the top row. Certainly a LOT more than 13.

13 bars on that shield,

yet another reference to the colonies.....{yawn}

13 leaves on the olive branch,

yet ANOTHER reference to the colonies.....there'd be 17 leaves if . . . well, you know...

13 fruits,

I actually used a pretty high powered magnifying glass and counted and counted....I wonder if the designer was ticked off at Massachusetts and did this a a subtle slam against them????

and if you look closely, 13 arrows.

Yep. Because there were 13 original colonies. You know...I think I figured it out. There were 13 colonies because that poor eagle couldn't HOLD any more arrows in his talon! What do you think?

You know...as interesting as this is (and it's been discussed over and over...) I fail to see "conspiracy" here. There just HAPPENED to be 13 original colonies....so the designer of the bill used that number over and over in honor of those founding colonies. Same reason we have 13 stripes on our flag. They kept adding stars as states were added (at one time ya' know there were only 13 stars!) But they kept the stripe number in honor of the colonies.

No conspiracy. Again...if we'd had 15 original colonies....there would be 15 stripes. Pretty simple stuff.

[edit on 31-3-2005 by senrak]